Yang Fan announced that the main camp of the army would be located in Jiuyuan City. At the same time, the city must be rebuilt and built into a famous city outside the Great Wall.喖
With the army moving in, large-scale renovations in Jiuyuan City began.
Engineers rushed to Yinshan to blast away rocks, and seven-ton caravans transported the rocks from the mountains. Countless stones were piled outside the city, forming hills. ,
One hundred thousand migrant workers were mobilized, including 40,000 who had been transferred to group training. In fact, there are now more than thirty-five thousand of them.
They began to rebuild the wall in sections. Based on the original city wall, the city wall was raised to ten meters and its thickness was expanded to eight meters. Then lay stones outside.
Yang Fan did not use blue bricks like Guihua City.
To wrap bricks with green bricks, you have to build a brick kiln and then find a nearby coal mine to bake the bricks. This came too slowly. Simply use engineers to blast the stones, and then use cement to build the outer city wall.
Because he needed to build fortifications, Yang Fan brought a lot of cement in his baggage. They are all packed in tin buckets. Yang Fan has 180,000 people in his hands, and can also mobilize the hundreds of thousands of captured Mongolians. His human resources are sufficient.喖
Now that there is no war. We can't let them idle, they all become construction teams and start city construction.
Within the city walls, construction of houses also began. After all, the city was deserted. Apart from the crumbling earth walls that were gnawed by dogs, there was nothing left inside. The only drum tower was also a dilapidated building.
Yang Fan ordered that the buildings be built directly with stones. Because the construction of the brick kiln had just begun and the coal mine had not yet been found, there would be no bricks available for a while. This resulted in Jiuyuan City becoming a city of stones.
The speed of rock blasting is very fast, and a large amount of rocks can be mined every day. Yang Fan also has a large caravan, and there is no shortage of strong cattle on the grassland. The captured herdsmen also drove Lele carts to transport the stones. The project is progressing quickly.
Yang Fan has already asked Xincheng to transport a large amount of cement. As long as cement can be supplied, construction speed is very fast.
Due to the lack of steel bars, large buildings often use arch structures to build roofs. It is close to the Yellow River and has many woods. If ordinary buildings are built into two- or three-story buildings, wood can be used as floor slabs.
According to Yang Fan's request, a horse face was built every fifty meters on the city wall, and stone watchtowers were built on top. It can be used as a place to stay for the soldiers who defend the city. It also has a shooting port and can be used as a bunker to attack the enemy.喖
Because I had experience in building new cities, I felt comfortable re-planning Jiuyuan City.
The cities in the Ming Dynasty basically followed the same pattern. The streets run east-west and north-south. The city center is the Yamen and the square. Nanmen Street is the main commercial street, with the Bell Tower and Drum Tower on both sides.
In many small towns, the bell and drum towers are combined into one building. Together they are called the Bell and Drum Towers.
Related facilities such as the City God's Temple, Taoist temples, temples, and Confucian temples were also naturalized and construction began. After all, a city must have all the functions it should have.
Yang Fan and the students from Xinghe Academy who accompanied the army planned Jiuyuan in one night according to the model of the new city.
At this time, the city was bustling with construction. Soldiers and construction workers worked in three shifts, working continuously during breaks. At night, there are also torches or fires for lighting. Speed up construction.
The people accompanying the Ministry of Industry marveled at how skillfully and orderly Dingyuan Bo was in building the city. Especially the use of cement surprised them even more. This gray powder works so well when mixed with sand.喖
Used to build stone walls, it becomes as hard as a stone in three days. After more than ten days, rows of stone houses in the city were basically built. It’s just that there are not enough carpenters and trees, and there are holes in the doors and windows.
These woods need to be cut down in small forests in the Yinshan Mountains or on the grasslands. This takes time and needs to be dried in the shade, and requires carpenters to make doors and windows. For the time being, we can only use reeds from the Yellow River to make straw curtains and cover the doors and windows first.
At the Yamen in the center of the city, Yang Fan simply built a castle in the style of a European castle. This kind of building can be used as an inner city, a strong fortress, and as the last stronghold after the city is broken. At the same time, living in the castle is relatively comfortable.
The castle has a thirty-meter-high tower that serves as the city's bell tower, drum tower and watchtower.
Outside the city, Yang Fan planned agricultural land and pastoral areas. Follow-up plans are to divert water from the Yellow River to irrigate farmland and grow pasture. Convert captured herdsmen to settled grazing. This gives you better control over them. At the same time, it can also increase the livestock carrying capacity of a single piece of pasture.
The current grassland management model is too extensive, too inefficient, and has no ability to withstand natural disasters. Planting pasture, storing green fodder in autumn, and driving cattle and sheep into stone houses can greatly reduce the death and fat loss of livestock in winter.
The Yellow River here is also higher than the two banks. It is easier to divert water. Just prevent the embankment from breaking. The river water will flow by gravity. With irrigation, both agriculture and animal husbandry will develop better, and there is no need to worry about drought and climate cooling in the next ten years.喖
Mongolia is in such misery because they don't know how to carry out water conservancy projects. But Yang Fan has no shortage of such talents. By building dams, he trained a qualified construction team and design team.
In the blink of an eye, Yang Fan and his army had been in Jiuyuan for a month. No new military action was taken except for sending the scout cavalry far away to monitor the remnants of Tumut and the Ordos near the river.
In the past month, the city wall has been completely rammed. The outer stone wrapping has also entered the final stage. In about ten days, the cement will be completely dry. By then, the granite walls will be impregnable.
Sewers have also been repaired and roads paved in the city. A large number of private houses were built on both sides of the road. They are all two or three-story buildings.
Military camps and school grounds were built in the city. Warehouses and armories were built. The stone castle in the center of the city is also under construction. This project is relatively large and is estimated to take one year to complete.
The city has planned residential areas and commercial areas, as well as livestock pen areas and handicraft workshop areas.
Ten large wells were built in the city. They are all deep stone wells with a diameter of three meters. Build a well pavilion outside. It can accommodate many people gathering around to fetch water. Ten water presses are installed on the outer ring of these wells, which can easily press water out of the wells.喖
It is close to the Yellow River and has very rich groundwater. The well does not need to be very deep to produce water. But there is plenty of water available for emergencies. These wells are all twenty meters deep. The water in the well is at least ten meters deep. Ensuring adequate water supply.
After Daza ran to Linhe, the two parties were basically at peace with each other. Except for the frequent encounters between scouts and cavalry, there was basically no fighting.
